Even after a few years, the VR market has still not caught on with the general public, although headsets are now being offered by a large number of manufacturers. That includes Sony with PSVR and the upcoming PSVR2. The company recently revealed that they plan to ramp up production of the coveted Playstation 5 consoles, and the shortage is likely to be largely over by now. When it comes to VR, however, Sony hasn’t had as much success as the manufacturer would like.
Lack of pre-orders for PSVR2 – Sony scales back
According to a new Report from Bloomberg Sony has lowered its expectations of the new headsets quite a bit. The company originally expected to sell two million headsets. However, that number has now been cut in half, with one million sales expected. The reason for this is probably that the pre-orders received so far have not been able to meet Sony’s expectations.
It is of course questionable why Sony assumed such high sales figures at all. After all, the headset costs more than the Playstation 5 itself, which you also need to be able to use PSVR2 at all. According to Bloomberg’s sources, Sony believed the launch roster of 30 different titles would encourage pre-orders, particularly new Horizon spin-off Call of the Mountain.
However, these games must of course also be purchased, in addition to the additional cost of the headset itself and possibly the console. A purchase of PSVR2 should therefore definitely be well considered, which is why Call of the Mountain was probably not able to convince many potential buyers. Now it only remains to be seen whether Sony can at least reach their targeted million.
